Linux configure grub to dual boot ??

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  1. Darkside

    Darkside What's a Dremel?

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    Well, I've prepared and area of hard drive, and successfully installed Red Hat Linux. :lol:

    During the install, it installed grub boot loader, which boots Linux very nicely indeed....... the problem being that my system also has Windows XP on it, and I'd like it to dual boot.

    I've opened the grub.config file with gedit, but I'm not at all sure what to type in to make it give the option to boot windoze. I have a book called "Linux - I didn't know you could do that", but that only makes light reference to Lilo, and isn't very helpful.

    The disks are configured like this :-

    HDD0
    Partition 1 - Windows XP
    Partition 2 - Data for Windows

    HDD1
    Partition 1 (probably sub partitioned by red hat) - Red Hat
    Partition 2 - All my media files


    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Darkside.
     
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    Hargle What's a Dremel?

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    Darkside What's a Dremel?

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    Right, Ive searched on the net, and added the following to the grub.config file

    title Windows XP
    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    chainloader +1

    Now it works WOOT

    :D :D :D

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    Darkside What's a Dremel?

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    Thanks for the help, Hargle. The mini how to helped a lot.

    Darkside.

    :lol: :D :lol: :D
     
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